Chapter 414: Victory and Defeat Happen Overnight
414 wins and losses were all overnight
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The soldiers of the White Dragon Army shouted loudly, and the sound spread far away.
Especially from Li Zixiao's side at this time, the bandits who were relatively close to the firelight saw the 'Chuang' flag cut by Li Zixiao, as well as the human head that was picked up by quartz.
They really thought that Li Zicheng had been killed, and they panicked one by one, and many bandits directly threw down their knives and guns and chose to escape.
The bandits who fled here fled in panic while shouting: "King Chuang is killed, King Chuang is killed!" ”
The news of the 'King Chuang being killed', like a plague, quickly spread among the bandit camps, and soon countless bandits learned the news.
After knowing that Li Zicheng was killed, there were only a handful of bandits who could insist on continuing to fight, and most of them chose to flee.
And the soldiers of the White Dragon Army, according to Li Zixiao's instructions in advance, were not busy catching prisoners at this time, but driving away those bandits who fled and creating even greater chaos.
"King Chuang is dead, everyone flee quickly, the official army is here."
"What, King Chuang is dead, impossible!"
In the fierce battle between Dang Shou Suzheng and Luo, he suddenly heard the news, and he was also shocked, and shouted in disbelief.
"Fight with me, dare to get distracted, and look for death!"
Luo saw that Dang Shousu was in a state of confusion because he heard the news that 'King Chuang is dead', and there were obvious flaws, so he took the opportunity to attack.
A spear was in Luo's hand, and it was danced like a dragon going out to sea, unstoppable.
Luo grasped the flaw in Dang Shousu's defense, first stabbed him in the shoulder with a shot, and then slammed the blade of the gun into the root of Dang Shousu's ear, directly blinding him.
"Let go of Lao Tzu."
Taking advantage of the fact that Dang Shousu was defeated by Luo, the two white dragon soldiers next to him rushed up and tied him up.
Although Luo didn't know the true identity of Dang Shousu, he could see at a glance that this person must be a fierce general under Li Zicheng.
According to Li Zixiao's previous instructions, for this kind of Li Zicheng's generals, it is best to capture them alive, if they can't be captured alive, don't kill them, just let them go.
Li Zixiao is right to defeat Li Zicheng, that is because he needs to accumulate military exploits, obtain greater official positions, control greater power, and obtain the name of justifiably expanding the army.
However, Li Zixiao would never allow Li Zicheng to be killed, and even he didn't want to see that Li Zicheng's strength was weakened too much.
Otherwise, when Li Zicheng's subordinates were defeated at this time, he could have ordered the White Dragon soldiers to cover up and kill, and even captured a large number of bandits.
However, Li Zixiao didn't, he just let the soldiers of the White Dragon Army drive behind the bandits, drive them away, and create more panic.
Because, Li Zixiao only needs to win this battle, these bandits who have become frightened birds at this time, and have no intention of fighting again can no longer pose a threat.
But once these bandits successfully escape, when the news of Li Zicheng's death spreads, Li Zicheng will climb the heights again, and most of these bandits will rejoin Li Zicheng's command.
It can be said that these bandits who fled will be the main source of Li Zicheng's troops to regain his strength in the next period of time.
After all, these bandits who have been trained, have been on the battlefield, and have seen blood have been reborn, and after they are regrouped, they can quickly form combat effectiveness, which is by no means comparable to those homeless people.
At this time, if Li Zixiao's strength is weakened too much, or even exterminated, this is not in Li Zixiao's interests at all.
Once the rebels were pacified, what reason would he have to occupy Ruzhou and what name would he use to expand his army?
He needs to keep Li Zicheng, create war, and continue to contain the power of the imperial court, Li Zixiao also expects Li Zicheng to continue to muddy the stagnant water at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Only when the water is muddy can he have a chance to fish in troubled waters, and only then can he have a chance to revive this pool of stagnant water.
"General."
Luo saw Li Zixiao coming over and hurried to catch up.
"Luo, gather men and horses, follow me to Yiyang City, if my expectations are correct, Li Zicheng probably did not escape, but went to find Liu Zongmin's army to join.
Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin must not be allowed to converge, otherwise everything we will do tonight will be in vain.
Next, let's continue to divide the troops into three routes, northern, central and south, and kill in Yiyang City, but if we encounter fleeing bandits to the east, we will drive them away, and they will not be allowed to continue to the east. ”
Li Zixiao said very eagerly.
They have not won this battle yet, once Li Zicheng finds Liu Zongmin, then the news of Li Zicheng's death in battle will be self-defeating.
Subsequently, Li Zixiao also sent an order to Han Tong and Li Tianba, and more than 1,500 soldiers of the White Dragon Army went towards Yiyang City.
Li Zicheng's camp was set up seven miles west of Yiyang City, and at this time, a team of dozens of bandits was covering Li Zicheng's eastward direction.
"Li Zixiao, you wait for this king, this king hasn't lost this battle, he hasn't lost!"
Li Zicheng rode on his horse, roared in a low voice, his eyes were full of madness, and he was unwilling to flee like this.
He was extremely unwilling, thinking that his majestic army of nearly 30,000 people would come to attack, how could he be defeated by the White Dragon Army of only a few thousand people.
He finally seized this opportunity, he didn't want to flee to Shangluo Mountain in disgrace, as long as he found Liu Zongmin to meet, this battle could still be turned around.
"What? The camp was attacked! ”
At this time, in Yiyang City, Liu Zongmin, who was still directing the bandits to attack overnight, finally received the news that the rear camp was attacked, and he almost ran away on the spot.
"Stop the attack, retreat, and return to the king." Liu Zongmin did not hesitate and ordered a retreat.
At this time, Xu Wei led the remnants of more than 1,000 White Dragon soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of young people in the city, which were completely compressed in a small area with the county government as the center.
Fortunately, this place has been transformed by Xu Wei in advance, using the high walls of those big families and the stone walls they built to block the attack of the bandits.
Often, they only need to send a small number of elite men and horses to hold a few gaps to block the large number of bandits behind.
At the same time, it was also because of the lives of the soldiers of the White Dragon Army and the young men in the city that they were able to hold on until now, but Xu Wei and the others were already exhausted at this time.
If it weren't for Li Zixiao's night attack on the bandit camp tonight, which would have dragged on until dawn tomorrow, it wouldn't take half a day for Liu Zongmin to lead people to attack it, and Xu Wei would definitely have no skills to return to heaven at that time.
"Liu Zongmin, why did you order a retreat? Don't you see we're about to go in? Wouldn't it be a waste of all your efforts to retreat now! ”
Liu Tichun strode over and questioned Li Zongmin.
"Our camp was attacked, King Chuang is in danger, and he fart, what is more important than returning to the king to help, you are less verbose, hurry up with your subordinates, and go out of the city to support King Chuang as soon as possible."
Liu Zongmin doesn't look at his rude personality, and he is greedy for money and lustful, but his loyalty to Li Zicheng is not questionable.
"How could our camp be attacked? Haven't all the Xuzhou troops been besieged by us in the city? Liu Tichun asked puzzled.
"How do I know, hurry up and straighten out the manpower, and go back to rescue King Chuang immediately."
"But ......, hey!" Liu Tichun still wanted to say something, but unfortunately he didn't say it, so he could only sigh deeply.
Seeing that victory was only one step away from them, but he wanted to give up in vain, how could he be reconciled!
However, Liu Tichun also agreed with Liu Zongmin's statement, nothing is more important than King Chuang's life, and it doesn't matter if they lose this battle.
As long as Li Zicheng does not die and gives them a little time, they will still have a chance to rise again, but if Li Zicheng dies, with their prestige, it will be difficult to carry the banner of fighting against the official army.
Thundered!
The sky was about to dawn, Li Zixiao rode on a war horse, and rushed to Yiyang City with the white dragon sergeants, and they had already scattered several groups of bandits along the way.
"King Chuang, it's the enemy's cavalry, catching up."
One of the bandits said eagerly.
"It's not good, King Chuang, you can't go east, turn around and go south, otherwise we will be caught up by them." Niu Jinxing also said with some panic.
"Damn, it's almost, it's just a little bit."
Li Zicheng roared unwillingly, seeing that they were not far from Yiyang, maybe the army of Liu Zongmin's reinforcements in front of them was about to be caught up by them.
It's a pity that at this time, Li Zixiao led his troops to kill from behind, so that Li Zicheng was unwilling to continue to run east.
In case he was caught up by the cavalry of the White Dragon Army who came from behind, no matter how many seven twenty-one times he was slashed, he would most likely die under the iron hoof.
No matter how aggrieved and unwilling Li Zicheng was at this time, he could only listen to Niu Jinxing's words, turn around and run south, avoiding the White Dragon Army chasing behind.
Fortunately, the sky was not yet bright at this time, and the eastern sky had just turned white, so Li Zicheng and the others ran south for a short distance and hid in a ravine, thus successfully avoiding Li Zixiao and them.
However, this also made Li Zicheng's hope of joining Liu Zongmin's army completely shattered.
"Go, follow them, and continue east."
After Li Zicheng saw Li Zixiao leading his troops over, he was still unwilling, and wanted to join Liu Zongmin and deal with Li Zixiao again.
"King Chuang, no, this battle is irreparable, let's retreat to safety first, let's think about it in the long run!"
At this time, Niu Jinxing saw that Li Zicheng didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he wanted to continue to go east, so he hurriedly stood up to stop him.
"This king is not defeated, who said that this king is defeated, I still have tens of thousands of troops in my hands, how can I be defeated!" Li Zicheng roared.
"King Chuang, if my expectations are right, with the treachery of Li Zixiao, he will definitely bring the news of 'King Chuang's death in battle' to Liu Zongmin.
At that time, with the prestige of Liu Zongmin and Liu Tichun, they will not be able to suppress those guys at all, and the rout will be unstoppable.
At this time, you must not be rash, your safety is the most important, just a defeat in a battle, far less important than your safety.
In the opinion of his subordinates, King Chuang should now go south, find General Tian Jianxiu to meet, and then escort you south to Nanyang to join Gao Yigong.
At that time, King Chuang, you will re-erect the banner, and the brothers scattered all over the place, hearing the news that you are not dead, will definitely come back to vote, and then we can rise again.
You have to think twice about the king, those who have become great things since ancient times, that one doesn't have to go through a thousand hardships, all kinds of tribulations, and practice lying on the salary for ten years before he got revenge and became the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. ”
Niu Jinxing's words finally persuaded Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng knew very well that what Niu Jinxing said was right, and the general trend of this battle was difficult to recover.
"Li Zixiao, this king swears, this revenge will be avenged! Remove! ”
Li Zicheng is also worthy of being a generation of heroes, very decisive, after listening to Niu Jinxing's words, he immediately took his subordinates south to find Tian Jianxiu.
On the other hand, Niu Jinxing's guess was not wrong at all, Li Zixiao made full use of the fake news that Li Zicheng was 'killed in battle' to shake the military morale of the bandits.
The three of them became tigers, and all of them were golden.
With countless bandits defeated and delivering the news for Li Zixiao, Li Zixiao is not worried about the bandits on Liu Zongmin's side, and he will not believe it.
At this time, even if Li Zicheng really merged with Liu Zongmin, it may not be effective.
This is also why, in ancient battles, the banner must not fall.
Because most of those soldiers don't know the boss, they only look at the handsome flag, and if the handsome flag is there, it means that the boss is there; Even if the boss is not dead, a rout is often inevitable.
Li Zicheng had no way before, in order to escape safely, he could only use the handsome flag as a bait to attract the attention of the White Dragon Army.
If he had let Shuai Qi follow him when he had withdrawn, it was estimated that he hadn't escaped two steps yet, and the White Dragon Army would catch up, so what a fart!
But now, although Li Zicheng successfully led people and escaped by taking advantage of the chaos, he paid for the handsome flag to be cut down and fell into the hands of Li Zixiao, such a troublesome situation.
And Li Zixiao is just waiting for this banner of "breaking", in Li Zixiao's plan, he has no intention of asking for Li Zicheng's life at all, scaring him and driving him away is Li Zixiao's purpose.
"My lord, it's not good, King Chuang is dead."
At this time, Liu Zongmin had just taken the bandits and hurriedly withdrew from Yiyang City, when he heard such bad news.
"Mom, a, if you dare to lie about the military situation, Lao Tzu will hack you to death."
Liu Zongmin drew his knife and slashed directly at the bandit in front of him.
At the same time, Liu Tichun immediately turned around and shouted loudly to the bandits who had begun to whisper behind him: "King Chuang will not die, this is a trick of the official army."
Don't fall for the tricks of the official army, now everyone will continue to kill with me, rescue King Chuang, and kill all these dog officials. ”
Liu Zongmin had a rude and brutal personality, he didn't think much about it at this time, and he killed this bandit out of anger.
However, Liu Tichun was very smart, and knew that if the news of 'King Chuang was dead' spread, their morale would be unstable, and their morale would inevitably plummet, which would be unfavorable to them, so he immediately stood up and vetoed it.
But in fact, Liu Tichun was also worried in his heart, he was worried that Li Zicheng would really die in battle, and it would be a bolt from the blue for them, the rebels!
It's a pity that at this time, more than 1,200 cavalry of the White Dragon Army led by Li Zixiao have also been killed.
"The thief is dead, and you won't surrender!"
Thousands of white dragon soldiers roared in unison, and Li Zixiao waved the big banner with the word 'Chuang' in his hand, and Quartz next to him held a spear in his hand, picking up a human head with a loose head, pretending to be Li Zicheng's human head.
Anyway, at this time, no one would take a closer look at the human head, and in this case, the bandits would easily think that the head was Li Zicheng's.
(End of chapter)
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